Today we draw a fly.
Although I constantly talk about my love for insects and admire these creatures, but, to be honest, I am not so enthusiastic about all insects. As soon as a housefly sits on the edge of my cup of coffee or runs over the monitor, and that's it - sympathy is gone. Here I openly admit: love for all-all-all living beings is good in theory. I prefer to love flies from a distance.
However, the request: "how to draw a fly" is amazingly popular - 858 per month.
At first I thought: it’s true, Chukovsky’s fans want to illustrate “Fly-sokotukha”! However - no, surprisingly, but here - only 165 people want to draw a tsokotukha. Aha! And the rest, therefore, are interested in a realistic, non-stylized and non-cartoon fly. Wonderful! Yes, for the sake of such a thing, I will instantly forget all my antipathy and enthusiastically rush to write a lesson on how to draw a fly in stages and coloring a Fly - you will lick your fingers.
Let's draw a fly - top view
The trunk consists of the chest and abdomen.
The head seems large because of the large eyes: the flies have very good eyesight and an almost circular view. On the head are short antennae. There are six legs, but not all of them are visible because of the wings. There are actually two wings - flies, like mosquitoes, are two-winged. The second pair of wings, believed by insects, is very reduced and turned into halteres (as in mosquitoes).
Here, a completely similar fly was drawn. This picture could very well work as a realistic fly coloring book.
According to the already established tradition, in the course of the drawing lesson, I also drew a coloring book.
And how to color? Not such a simple question: flies are different.
It is this fly of ours that is the hoverfly. They are completely harmless and defenseless, but they disguise themselves as wasps.
And although the shape of the body is completely different, and the characteristic stripes are not at all so bright, the hoverfly succeeds in deceiving predators: they do not touch it. We wish her continued success in her disguise... By the way, about masking and masks - I have a cool article. I highly recommend reading.
By tradition, we will not be limited to one picture. Let's fix the topic - we draw an ordinary house fly.
Draw a fly - side view.
We have already talked about the structure of the body, legs and two wings.
Let's be more specific about the head:
The proboscis is visible in the picture - the lower lip is turned into a tube. So… but what do these flies drink? They, of course, are also found on flowers, but it is clear that nectar is by no means their main food. Flies, as you know, more and more on the garbage and fell, and this is solid food.
Well, flies have external digestion. Yes,
Insects get a person at any time of the day or year, and because of their small size and increased speed of stalling from the battlefield, they are almost impossible to wipe off the face of the earth. Much easier to remove bison or mammoths. give a lot of pleasure, but the fly also does not sit still when the opportunity comes across. In this lesson we will learn how to draw a fly with a pencil. A fly is an insect that ambiguously loves corpses of different categories, garbage and buzzing. Like any pest of a small suit, it must be destroyed by use or a slipper. Statistically, this is the most popular human pet, although it does not yet know about it. It also helps young sadyugs to develop well - it is silent, almost does not resist and is available in large quantities.
Each fly is a small plant for processing all sorts of filth into useful things. They do not eat with their mouths, and not even with a knife and fork, as is customary in a civilized society, but through their proboscis. At the same time, they douse food with gastric juice first, and only then they devour this sticky slurry (bon appetit). Delicacy. In addition, flies are very fond of breeding. If love conquered a couple of flies, then in 4 months so many of them will be born that you can sew a carpet on the whole Earth. But only a few of these cubs survive due to the global economic crisis and the next re-elections in Ukraine. But even without this, there are so many of them that humanity has to come up with fanciful ways to exterminate the subject. How can you kill a common fly:
- With my own hand. However, to maintain hygiene, it is worth using improvised means, such as: a newspaper, a Thunder hammer, an iPad, a set of crystal dishes, slippers;
- Take sprays of various contents, hairspray, gas cans, Avon magazine with smells on the pages;
- Use a fly cat or a spider;
- Call the rescue service;
- To starve them to death: do not buy anything, do not go to the toilet, and after dying, pack yourself in a vacuum bag;
- Make a flamethrower in dad's garage. Flies will run away in fear only once you bring the equipment home;
- Sticky tape or bait based on a nuclear reactor. Cruel and merciless for both sides of the conflict.
Now let's draw this identified flying object.
How to draw a fly with a pencil step by step
Step one. Let's sketch the insect's body. 
Step two. Let's draw the torso, eyes, paws and two wings in more detail. 
Step three. Delete extra lines, outline the contours more clearly, and add shadows. 
This is roughly how it should work. Try to draw other insects, for example.
Fly-Tsokotuha is a famous character from a children's poem written by the Soviet poet Korney Chukovsky. The poet wrote about Fly-Tsokotukha, who bought a samovar at the market and solemnly celebrated her birthday. The Spider came from somewhere and abducted the Fly, but Komarik flew to the aid of the birthday girl - he saved the Fly and married her.
According to the plot of the poem, a cartoon was made in Soviet times. Many people remember and love this legendary work with painted funny characters. The work of Korney Chukovsky is still relevant today, and the cute faces of the characters arouse interest and smile among modern kids.
How to draw Mukha-Tsokotukha
To recreate a character from a children's cartoon, you can try drawing a fly in profile, sitting upright or in full growth. How to draw a Fly-Tsokotukha sitting straight? To do this, you need a blank sheet of paper, an eraser and a regular pencil.
Using this example, you can depict an insect that sits upright, and it is as if they are watching it from above. The head and body are in a straight line. The drawn elements should be slightly rounded. The head must be depicted in size smaller than the Fly's body.
3 pairs of legs and insect wings are arranged symmetrically. And between the 2nd and 3rd paws, on both sides, Tsokotukha needs to draw wings that will go at an angle of 45 °. Be sure to go over the contour a couple of times with a pencil. On the inside of the wing - to create a vein - lightly draw a line. You can add volume to the body and head of the insect using lines by marking a light spot on the body.
Fly-Tsokotuha in profile
An insect can also be shown in profile. How about from that perspective? It is necessary to draw 3 ovals. One of which to make a little smaller is the head, which is better placed on the right side. To the left of the head, you need to draw an oval, 2.5 times larger, and between them another one - approximately the same size as on the left. The wings of the insect must be positioned so that they are between these parts of the body.
The Tsokotukha fly sits in profile, so one wing must be drawn above the other. So they will visually appear slightly raised up. Looking at Tsokotukha from this angle, 3 paws will be noticeable. The first one must be drawn from the middle of the head - down, the second - between the 2nd and 3rd elements, and the third - from the middle of the 3rd oval. After that, you can paint over the torso with lines to create volume.
How to draw Muhu-Tsokotukha step by step
How to draw Mukha-Tsokotukha to make the drawing more colorful? To do this, you can paint the resulting beauty with multi-colored pencils or a marker.
As it turned out, drawing Mukha-Tsokotukha with a pencil is not difficult!
Annoying, buzzing two-winged insect - a fly. It comes in different sizes: large, small and medium. Everyone represents them according to stereotypes: four paws, two huge eyes, a large body and two transparent wings. This is how they are depicted in cartoons, because the insect is often found in fairy tales and fables, films are made about them.
But not everything is so simple. In order to thoroughly know how to draw a fly, you should take a closer look at this insect. Her entire body is covered with hairs, the body is divided into two parts, and on the lower surface of the head is a proboscis.
simple pencil drawing
To draw a fly with a pencil, you should act clearly according to the plan. We will draw on the worksheet using a simple technique without using auxiliary lines. So, let's start with the middle part of the body, which consists of the head, chest and abdomen. To do this, draw the correct rhombus with rounded corners. On the right side side, exactly in the center, we extend the mound for a short distance. From its middle we draw a line down at an angle of forty-five degrees.
We put the head on the mound in the form of a triangle elongated on the sides. The fly has compound eyes, so we delimit the visual organ on the sides and draw a mesh in it. Before the head you need to draw two antennas and a mustache in the form of horns.
The wings of a fly are larger than an insect, so we draw two huge wings on the sides, stretching them far back.
It remains to add the third part of the body, which is pointed at the end. We continue the line of the chest on this part, drawing two beveled lines on the sides.
Let's move on to detailing: on the wings of a fly, there are definitely streaks, and in front and behind there are a pair of long legs.
Coloring. The front paws and head should be dark green, the hind legs, whiskers, eyes and wings should be red, the rest of the body should be blue.
Option for children
To help a child draw a fly, you need to choose the easiest option and creation technology. Therefore, we will focus on such a simple option, where you can even work with an ordinary pen. We start drawing from the head. We make a filled circle, narrowing it a little towards the upper right side, adding two donuts on the sides. These will be the eyes.
Now you need to shape the body. This will be a figure that looks similar to a nesting doll or a tumbler.
We detail the body a little. With the help of hatching, we go along the border of the abdomen, adding the same curve in the center, then another one closer to the head (we make it wider) and draw a black spot in front of the head itself.
From the belly we draw out two wide and long wings.
On the wings we draw a grid into four squares. Under the wings we make the third part of the body, stretching it a little further. Let's draw it. At the back we add a couple of legs. We put a dot in each eye. This will be the pupil. Ahead we finish the proboscis. On the middle part of the body we make one pair of short legs and one longer. It turns out a funny heroine of fairy tales.
Sophisticated step by step methodology
Now you can move on to the complex drawing technique. To figure out how to draw a fly in stages, you must carefully follow all the recommendations. We start with the head. We draw a head stretched to the sides with a partition in the middle. On the sides we make ovals for the eyes, and in the center there are two antennae.
Behind the head we draw a breast, which will be narrower, but much longer. Under the breast, we begin to draw the rest of the torso. It will look like an elongated lemon with a butt at the end.
From the sides of the breast, we begin to draw wings, ending them exactly in the center of the middle part of the body.
It makes no sense to paint over the fly, so let's just paint the necessary areas with black. Let's shade the head, and add hairs on the body. On the wings you need to finish the veins. It remains to attach three pairs of legs, bending them at the knee.
Beautiful heroine of fairy tales
How to draw a fly tsokotukha? To do this, you do not need to portray her as a bloodthirsty, evil or dirty peddler of infections. You can make a beautiful girl. We start drawing from the head. The rounded shape of the head, two such round eyes with eyelashes, a smiling mouth and a nose in the form of a proboscis. Two small but neat eyebrows. We make out two antennas on the head and we cling an old hat to the head.
Draw a rounded middle part of the body under the head and draw the arm bent at the elbow to the left side. We put a pink umbrella in our hand. Draw a large blue knot under the chin.
In the background, we draw two long wings with veins from the back. We paint it pink, like a hat.
We finish the third part of the body in the form of a long and slightly bent sausage. At the bottom we draw thin legs and put them in blue boots. On the body we make out an apron, on which two hands should be located. We bring the fourth hand to the right side, again bending at the elbow. In this hand she will have a yellow wicker basket.
To do this, draw a small triangle with equal sides. Draw two ovals on the sides - this is the future fly. They must be positioned so that they protrude slightly beyond the sides of the triangle. Since the fly has compound eyes, shade the ovals with light lines in two directions. Closer to the top of the triangle, draw the antennae (antennae). Draw thin hairs on them.
Next, you need to depict the chest. Draw an elongated semi-oval from the bottom of the triangle. Then draw the belly, which should be shaped like a fly's thorax, but slightly longer. Draw stripes on the abdomen to represent its shape.
Draw the front paws. To do this, draw two parallel lines from the chest to the side, slightly up. Then turn the lines vertically up. Once again, turn to the side and slightly up. Draw the middle paws. They begin at the intersection of the chest with the abdomen. Draw in the same way, only the direction of the lines should go a little up and to the side, and then in an arc down and up. The hind legs follow the same way as the front ones, only in the opposite direction, that is, down.
Draw . They start from the junction of the chest with the abdomen. The wings should be slightly longer than the abdomen. Draw a grid on the wings to represent the tiny locking muscle system.
Draw thin hairs on all paws and along the contour of the abdomen. Erase the extra lines. On the head, chest and abdomen, put a lot, because that's how you see the short hairs from above. The fly is ready.
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Using only simple pencils of different softness, you can draw a very realistic fly. It is better to do this in stages - first create the base of the insect, then draw some details brighter, add volume, shadows and light.
Fly sitting sideways
You can draw a fly based on a base of two or three ovals. Start with the first method by creating an insect from two main shapes. To do this, draw a small oval on the left side of the sheet - the head of an insect. A larger oval extends from this figure to the right. This is the body of a fly. From the sides of the body to both sides, place the wings. These will be already more elongated ovals, at the end they are slightly pointed. The wings of an insect are about 1.5-2 times larger than its body - pay attention to this when creating your artistic masterpiece.
Since this is a half-turn drawing of a fly, the wings do not lie in a straight line. Draw the wing, which is behind, a little higher than the first. The fly has 6 legs. The first 2 come out from under the oval head. Draw the next pair at the intersection of the first with the second oval. The third pair emerges from the middle of the second body oval.
Draw two large round eyes on the head. Draw a small proboscis. It is straight - slightly forked at the end. You can draw small hairs on the paws.
Now we need to add texture to the drawing. Take a medium-hard pencil, make strokes on the body of the insect with it. Leave a light spot in the middle. So you give the picture volume.
Add texture to the wings. Draw a few veins on them with a soft simple pencil. Leave the wings themselves unshaded. Because they are transparent.
Fly sitting upright
You can use this template to draw a fly that sits upright and is looked at from above. Details of the head and torso lie on the same line. The ovals are already rounded. There is little difference between head and body size. The head looks up.
Three pairs of legs and wings are arranged symmetrically. Between the second and third legs on one side and on the other, mark the wings. They run at a 45 degree angle. Outline them with a hard pencil. Inside the wings, you can create veins with a pencil or leave the wings as they are. Use strokes to add volume to the body and head, leaving a light spot on the body.
The body and head of the insect - from three ovals
Flies are different. The heroine of this picture may consist of three ovals. The first is the head. It is slightly smaller than the other two. These are parts of her body. Draw the insect in profile. Head is on the right. On the left side of it, draw an oval, 3 times larger. Close to him - another one - the same size. The wings of this specimen are located between these two body parts. Since the fly is in profile, place one wing over the other. They go almost horizontally, slightly rising up.
From this angle, only 3 legs of the insect are visible. One goes down from the middle of the head, the second is located between the 2nd and 3rd ovals. The third comes out of the middle of the 3rd.
Add strokes of volume. The drawing of the fly is ready.
